Forum Display Enhancements - Country Display for Who's Online

*** Staff note: The author of this modification has passed away in a diving accident. We wish his family all strength in dealing with this traggic issue. ***

Country Display for Who's Online

What does this do?

It adds another column to your Who's Online display, with the country where the user is logging on from. You can choose either the name, the flag or both. You can also decide which users can see this information.

How about a quick summary of features?

Country display can be admin/moderator only, or available for everyone to see
You can display the country name, a flag, or both. You can use alternative flag sets if you want
Adds minimal overhead, no additional queries
Works on 3.6.6, 3.6.7 and should work for future versions as well. Will not work on versions prior to this. There is a manual file hack for previous versions here (unsupported).
Country information is provided by the GLA (Geographic Location Awareness) mod. Therefore updates to GLA will automatically provide improvements to any mod using GLA.

How do I install?

1. Install GLA first. You can find it here. It's easy and takes a minute.
2. Download and install the enclosed .xml file via adminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product -> Import.

How do I configure it?

By default it will display only the country name to admin, super moderators and moderators. You can change this under vBulletin Options -> Who's Online Options. Be sure to check these options and click "save", even if you haven't changed anything. See attached screenshots.

Before posting on this thread:

If your issue concerns questions about country detection, the accuracy of the database, etc - please post your question on the GLA thread instead. Please only post issues here concerning the Who's Online display itself.

Please click install. Support requests from people who have not clicked install may not be answered.

Version history:
V1.0 - (07.07.07) Initial release

[tanyeri24]

oke you've right.
country table is there but no flag no country name on WOL.
In admincp is set the show... again there is created "COUNTRY" in WOL
but no FLAG no COUNTRYNAME.
installed exact like .txt.

[mfyvie]

Originally Posted by tanyeri24

oke you've right.
country table is there but no flag no country name on WOL.
In admincp is set the show... again there is created "COUNTRY" in WOL
but no FLAG no COUNTRYNAME.
installed exact like .txt.

That's a bit better. You've obviously confirmed that the table "ip2country" is in your database (I take it that's what you mean by country table). The next thing you should do is check your session table, and see if the country column has been added to the session table, and if it is populated.

On the other hand, you might be saying that country table is the column for "Country" on the who's online table itself (if this is what you meant the column rather than table is the word you wanted).

Although you've improved the amount of information you've supplied, please take the time to write clearly and in detail, and I might be able to help you more. In the meantime, I take it you noticed this part in the instructions:

Please click install. Support requests from people who have not clicked install may not be answered.

[jderouen]

Am I correct in assuming that the displays don't update until someone changes what they're doing on the forums? ie: I just installed it, but only a smattering of the 100+ people listed in the Who's Online have a flag next to their name. But as I've reloaded over the last several minutes, I've noticed some of them filling in as they moved around the board.

Is that correct, or is something wrong?

Thanks!
Joe

[mfyvie]

Originally Posted by jderouen

Am I correct in assuming that the displays don't update until someone changes what they're doing on the forums? ie: I just installed it, but only a smattering of the 100+ people listed in the Who's Online have a flag next to their name. But as I've reloaded over the last several minutes, I've noticed some of them filling in as they moved around the board.

Is that correct, or is something wrong?

Thanks!
Joe

Hi Joe, you are correct - someone has to actually load a page before the required code will fire up for the first time. You can't expect it to work for the sessions that have been inactive since before you installed it. Speaking of installed. [cough] forgotten to click install?

[tanyeri24]

Originally Posted by mfyvie

On the other hand, you might be saying that country table is the column for "Country" on the who's online table itself (if this is what you meant the column rather than table is the word you wanted).

yeah column is there on WOL but no FLAG no NAME. Thanks.

[alessai]

i'll love this if it can show up in the postbit

[Xil Ze]

i'm using 3.6.4, so that may be the issue. the database is good and everything installed correctly as far as i can tell but there's no cell for the country data on the page:

	<td class="alt1"><div class="smallfont">
			
				<a href="online.php?do=resolveip&amp;ipaddress=" id="resolveip_1" title="Resolve IP Address"></a>
			
			
		</div></td>

Flag cell should be here.
	
	<td class="alt1"></td>
		<td class="alt2" align="center" nowrap="nowrap">
			<a href="#" onclick="imwindow('aim', '1', 400, 200); return false;"><img src="http://blogicology.com/images/misc/im_aim.gif" alt="Send a message via AIM " border="0" /></a>
		</td>

(i guess my issue is the same as the other guy's.)

[mfyvie]

Originally Posted by Xil Ze

i'm using 3.6.4, so that may be the issue. the database is good and everything installed correctly as far as i can tell but there's no cell for the country data on the page:

Xil Ze - Bonus points for realising that this is a 3.6.7 mod, but you are running on 3.6.4.

Ok, this is the string I am targetting in both WHOSONLINE and whosonlinebit:

<if condition="$vboptions['showimicons']">

It looks like you have shown your HTML output there. If you can find the equivalent text in your whosonlinebit template and copy it here (with a couple of lines either side), I'll see what I can do about making it detect 3.6.4 as well. Please check only the standard template (not one you may have modified!). I don't have 3.6.4 so you'll have to send me an email, so I can email you back a version for you to test.

[Xil Ze]

alright, i've determined that, on my board, $userinfo[country_iso2] $userinfo[country] are invariably returned as null. though they're correct in the session table.

[mfyvie]

Originally Posted by Xil Ze

alright, i've determined that, on my board, $userinfo[country_iso2] $userinfo[country] are invariably returned as null. though they're correct in the session table.

That sounds very strange. Try adding something to one of your templates just on a temporary basis: $session[country]. This should display YOUR country, for your own session (from GLA itself). The $userinfo variables belong to the who's online mod.

You can switch to PM's now if you like - that would help to keep all the boring stuff off the thread until we resolve this. If there's information that comes out that is useful, I'll update this thread.